Sto je muskarac bez brkova?

The film was screened in the competition of the 11th Sarajevo film festival (2005) and it betrayed expectations. It's a false comedy based on the novel written by Croatian journalist and writer Ante Tomic. Unoriginal love story between the young widow and a catholic priest is dressed with mockery with peasants from southern Croatia and their characteristics. A lot of jokes (mainly old ones and already seen in Serbian movies) without necessary film totality. Hribar's direction makes efforts to looks like "american" and the result is miserable. The actors are fine (mostly). The best is Zrinka Cvitesic, young and good looking actress. The photography is the best part of this movie.

Great and funny mobile.... Maybe non-croatians wont understand croatian style of humor, especially croatian humor speech...in every case great movie

I read the Anto Tomic's great novel that the movie is based on couple of years before the movie came out. I found the movie to be just as hilarious as the book. I've seen the movie a few times, and although of course there is always room for improvement especially considering the flow, it certainly satisfies the comedic requirement and has carried most of the ideas from the novel. I highly recommend it to all. The English-speaking audience, although a bit deprived of understanding the original Croatian language in the movie, will find the subtitles more than sufficient. At least all of my American friends who watched the movie found it to be a great comedy.

To be short and simple:its a likable story.Its sometimes trivial with no twists and as little spice at the ending, with some fine remarks on attitude and petty-bourgeois mentality of people.The credit goes to A.Tomic's novel alone for a great template. I surely cannot be totally objective as Im disgusted with other croatian attempts in making a successful comedy...This one is a lemonade.Easy drinking and not so much impressing- but when you are estimating this movie, you should put it in context of previous attempts of comedy and farce in Croatia, and there, it exceeds all of its predecessors.All of that remarks about thin characterization and on occasions pompous directing are far too serious for such a superficial movie

Hilarious... I've seen it couple of times, and I keep finding little diamonds here and there... This is a post-nationalist, post-patriotic movie that reverberates with all audiences in the Western Balkans, uncovering the common humanity and exposing the excesses of the recent past. I haven't seen a Croatian movie in almost twenty years, and I am particularly glad to see that Croatian film making is alive and well. I have to admit, the movie reminded me how similar in mentality and thinking the peoples of ex-Yugoslavia really are. While it may be politically incorrect for some today to call the language the movie was filmed in "serbo-croatian", the reality is, if this movie was filmed in "Croatian", "translating" it to "Serbian", as in subtitles, would just add a further element of comedy to it. The difference, particularly for the dialect spoken in the movie, being as between Canadian and American English.